ifconfig output

Since I'm an anal type of person I need to see things the way I want to see them. I configured two adapters with different IP addresses and ran ifconfig -a. The output showed them in reverse order. i.e. en1 and then en0. I removed the en, ent and et for both and tried again. This time configuring en0 first but when I run ifconfig -a it still shows them in reverse order.

My question is what determines the order of the display?

Randy
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However the actual discovery order of the "ent", devices may not appear
how you may like them.
lsdev -C | grep "^en".
You may find that the physical card that was ent0 is now actually
associated with ent1, and reversed.
This is determined by the order that the bus devices are scanned.

Note: Deleting the physical devices entries will cause the "device"
settings (full duplex, speed, etc) to be lost.
Thy will default to auto,auto that could be bad depending on your LAN
switch settings.
We have found if the switch is set to auto and AIX is set to auto, you
can end up with really random, poor decisions, like Half Duplex at 10
meg, when you really wanted full duplex, 1000 speed.

I mention with reluctance that a standard approach in this neck of the woods when the techs need to replace Ethernet cards after an upset, is to pull em all out, and reinsert them in the desired physical slot in the desired order?

One at a time. <sigh>

Brian Whatcott

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